Breed name get your attention? This name is not out of a comic book, there is a breed of sheep indeed named California Variegated Mutant. So let's go back to the 1960s when a sheep farmer found among his flock of solid color (probably white) Romeldale sheep a multicolored one. Over the years, at random times, the multicolored sheep would be born into the flock. He bred the colored sheep with each other(each of the sheep had different mothers, so they were not inbred with siblings) and bam!- the California Variegated Mutant (CVM for short) breed was born. The wool, like it's Romeldale parentage, is matte lustrous, fine, and soft.

It is a rare breed and wool is not readily available, the skein below if only the second time I have ever spun this breed's wool.